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red-tailed hawk
noun
: a widely distributed chiefly rodent-eating New World hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) that is usually mottled dusky above and white streaked dusky and tinged with buff below and has a rather short typically reddish tail
called also redtail
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Levin drove me to Ann Arbor, interrupting himself occasionally to point out a red-tailed hawk, then speed-walked to the Diag, the central quad on the university’s campus, where about a hundred people stood in a circle.
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Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
During his recovery, his father bought him a red-tailed hawk, igniting a lifelong passion for falconry.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
In March, 16 days after Sirica first treated the incapacitated red-tailed hawk, Paula Goldberg, former executive director of City Wildlife, opened the trunk of her Toyota SUV to reveal a small white box perforated with air holes.
—Bydina Fine Maron, science.org, 10 July 2024
Listen to this article Nearly two months ago, the Oregon Ridge Nature Center lost Stella, their resident partially blind red-tailed hawk, when a falling tree crashed through her enclosure, opening it to the sky above.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2024
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Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
During his recovery, his father bought him a red-tailed hawk, igniting a lifelong passion for falconry.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
In March, 16 days after Sirica first treated the incapacitated red-tailed hawk, Paula Goldberg, former executive director of City Wildlife, opened the trunk of her Toyota SUV to reveal a small white box perforated with air holes.
—Bydina Fine Maron, science.org, 10 July 2024
Listen to this article Nearly two months ago, the Oregon Ridge Nature Center lost Stella, their resident partially blind red-tailed hawk, when a falling tree crashed through her enclosure, opening it to the sky above.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2024
See All Example Sentences for red-tailed hawk
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“Red-tailed hawk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/red-tailed%20hawk. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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